Joan G Edwards - the painter's eye
A prized volume on Joan Edwards' bookshelves was Geoffrey Grigson's poetry anthology 'The Poet's Eye' with 16 lithographs by John Craxton, published in 1944. One might wonder about a possible influence of the style of this artist, born in the same year, on the visual language she developed later. Whatever the truth of that, we use this oblique reference to Grigson's Shakespeare-derived title to present two paintings in which she incorporated the seeing eye into her work.
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Within the Hillside (1987) gouache, 584 x 394 mm collection of the artist As Isabelle Gauthier, the author of the catalogue introduction for an exhibition in Toulouse, pointed out, this work suggests both the mining history of Cornwall and the eye and optic nerve of an observer. |
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Untitled (c.2008) gouache, 350 x 630 mm collection of the artist A slightly atypical but undeniably attractive work, playfully combining curved and lozenge forms, but with one delightfully ambiguous eye just off centre. |
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